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Valuable tips for lazy guitarists
Why spend time slaving over learning the guitar when you can learn just enough to impress your friends? Yes, you read it right. You don’t have to spend years perfecting the techniques to earn a reputation as a good guitarist. This article is for people who have yet not started learning the guitar or people…
A Few Tips to Know Before Starting Your Own Travelling Blog
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Travelling the world while writing about your adventures seems like a pipe dream to many stuck in the 9-5 grind. Living your dreams while getting paid to share your experiences with the rest of the world? Can’t be true. However, unbeknownst to many, this is exactly what some people are doing, and it’s a rather…
How to Brand Yourself in Today’s Digital Industry
Gone are the days when musicians simply hung flyers for their local gigs and sold LPs from a table along the venue’s back wall. Today’s musicians are operating in a digital industry, and their marketing efforts should match that fact. Think you’re an artist, not a techy? It’s time to change your perception. For success…
Music Rights & Royalties For Creative Licensing
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It’s hard to know what your rights are as a musician with so many different ways to sell your music and how just advertising your songs on your own website sometimes leads to other people using it without your authorisation. This also includes sending your music to music labels and not knowing if you’re getting…
5 Most Overrated Albums of All Time
Over the years, there’s been some great music albums that have been created. I can think of several that I enjoy listening to in their entirety, but there’s also some that only have a few hits on them. Recently, when I was thinking back to some of the albums of the past that were extremely…
5 Iconic and Unusual Musical Places to Visit
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1. Music Row, Nashville, Tennessee Not only have songs been written about it, but the title “Music Row” has been the unofficial name of the country music industry for over 50 years because it is universally seen as the heart and soul of country music as well as gospel in the Nashville area. You will…
Unlocking the guitar fretboard and understanding key signatures
By Gary from Tune in, Tone up! This supports our podcast on SoundCloud on Friday 12th May 2017 (episode 13b is about how to practise without your guitar) https://tunein-toneup.com/2017/05/05/guitar-lesson-13-how-to-practice-without-a-guitar-and-further-rhythm-ideas-and-alternate-tuning/ If I could advise myself when I first started out on guitar, what things would I say? What do I wish I knew then, that I…
In Search of the Perfect Guitar Tone
This is very much a Holy Grail-type quest. By this we mean it will never be fully accomplished but neither would any guitar player want it to be. Part of the joy of learning how to develop your guitar tone is the endless experimentation with your technique and equipment. This is not to say that…
How to improvise better solos on the guitar
Thoughts, advice and demonstrations on Guitar solo improvisation from tunein-toneup.com Why do I love playing the guitar so much? Mainly because the guitar is an instrument, a tool, which I use to express myself and hope to make the listener feel something. My voice. As Maya Angelou said: People will forget what you said. People…